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Adolescent Resource Center (ARC)

Helping Adolescents Thrive Toolkit: Strategies to Promote and Protect Adolescent Mental Health and Reduce Self-Harm and Other Risk Behaviours

The Helping Adolescents Thrive Toolkit provides evidence-informed strategies to promote adolescent mental health, prevent mental health conditions, and reduce self-harm and other risk behaviours. Developed by WHO and UNICEF, the toolkit supports policymakers, programme managers, and organizations in implementing mental health promotion and prevention programmes for adolescents. It outlines four key strategies: strengthening policies and laws, creating supportive environments, supporting caregivers, and delivering psychosocial interventions for adolescents